On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Thierry Dumont wrote:

> jason-s...@creativetrax.com a écrit :
>>
>> Williams post:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Grant proposal season is upon us, and things are in the works.
>> Imagine somebody said to you:
>>
>> "Please send me a list of items you would like us to fund.  What I
>> need is just a sentence or two (at most a
>> paragraph) describing the work ... and a ballpark estimate of the  
>> cost."
>>
>> Feel free to post in this thread any wishlist ideas along these lines
>> that you might have.  They could make there way into a proposal that
>> might get funded, and Sage development would consequently benefit
>> greatly.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> William
>>
>
> 1) Sage Notebook (but this seems already in the development pipe- 
> line):
> -security and confidentiality: have true users, groups of users or
> something like that, who can share or *cannot* share worksheets. The
> possibility to protect worksheets is mandatory for examinations,  
> but non
> only for examinations.
>
> 2) Code generator(s): Maple is often used by engineers to generate  
> C (or
> Fortran) code. For example, if you develop finite element methods, you
> can have up to 128 polynomials to integrate on a simplex (this is only
> an example). Ok all this is trivial mathematics, but tedious. Maple
> makes the code for you: I know groups who buy Maple only for this  
> feature!
fast_callable already does this in a limited sense (it makes bytecode  
interpreters, not expression code itself) but the infrastructure is  
all sitting there to be able to do this.

- Robert



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